Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

The power behind words lies with the person.

I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children

Dancing can be addictive if you like it.

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.